“You will all feel that you are in the same room as other people,” he added.

He said that the technology will be so advanced that even eye contact and handshaking will be as realistic as if you were all in the same room.

“It is quite hard to think of an aspect of meeting in real life that will not be transferred to virtual reality,” he said, adding that there is an ongoing effort to make the haptics work well.

Some VR developers, however, still believe that conference calls will remain a popular choice. One hurdle they foresee is the cost of VR technology.

“I definitely can see VR becoming widely used for the purposes of collaborative working … but I doubt it will replace cheaper conferencing technology where visual content is not important,” said Jonathan Wagstaff, head of VR division at IT supply chain company, Context.

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